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I don’t know what Germany’s foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, could have been thinking.
Japan’s prime minister is playing a risky game.
The US has supported anti-Putin forces since 2008, but ramped up that support in 2011, when Putin, then the prime minister, prepared to return to the presidency.
Yes, such a committee would bring Merkel the added political benefit of constraining the influence of Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, her Vice-Chancellor and finance minister.
I was lucky enough, as Australia’s foreign minister at the time, to be one of the first foreign officials to greet him after his release from prison in February 1990 – just a few days later, in Lusaka, where he had flown to meet his African National Congress colleagues in exile.
The last three decades have yielded a cadre of women leaders even where women otherwise lag far behind in terms of opportunity – for example, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Ukraine’s two-time former prime minister, Yuliya Tymoshenko, and Presidents Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Joyce Banda of Malawi.
Mikhail Kasyanov, a prime minister under Putin and now a leader of the opposition People’s Freedom Party, insisted that “nobody knew” about the swap.
Germany’s establishment media are now referring to the Italian economist whose appointment as finance minister was vetoed by the president as “Italy’s Varoufakis.”
And he is a strong believer in Europe who supports proposals to establish a eurozone finance minister.
There was hope of inclusion of marginalized groups, such as a Shia minister for the first time in the Kingdom’s history, and action against corruption, represented by the removal of long-serving ministers.
The tough-minded Iraqi leader, Nouri al-Maliki, who won three terms as prime minister, may not have engaged in sufficient outreach to the country’s Sunnis, but that is only one reason why Sunni radicalism persists in Iraq.
Today, we do have what might be called a "left," although its main representatives, the postcommunists, follow Britain’s new Labour prime minister Tony Blair in believing more strongly in a market economy than in extending social welfare.
Jan Maria Rokita, one of the most intelligent leaders of the right and a former home affairs minister, recently said that the Polish people already have all the human rights that liberalism can bestow.
The prime minister?
Since 1999, when Putin first became prime minister, 34 journalists have been killed while reporting in the country, including investigative reporter Nikolai Andrushchenko, who was beaten to death last year in St. Petersburg.
He also appoints the prime minister and senior ministers, and must approve all other ministers, ambassadors, and state representatives.
Having unsettled many of his neighbors, not just the Americans, his upcoming visit to Vietnam, and his prime minister Li Keqiang’s visit to South Korea, are of a piece with his dinner-hour diplomacy with Ma.
As the new government’s finance minister, I was determined that any new bank recapitalization should avoid the pitfalls of the first two.
Just days later, India’s external affairs minister, in Islamabad for the fifth Heart of Asia ministerial conference on Afghanistan, met with top Pakistani officials, including both Sharif and his foreign affairs adviser, before announcing that the two countries had decided to restart a comprehensive dialogue.
After all, Pakistan has not really done anything to warrant the diplomatic reward of a visit from India’s prime minister.
But even then, there would be a serious potential hitch: Pakistan’s prime minister does not, ultimately, call the shots in his country.
Indians cannot afford to forget that the last time Sharif hosted a celebrated feel-good visit by an Indian prime minister in Lahore, in 1999, his army subsequently started a war with India on the Kargil heights and unseated Sharif himself within months.
To the extent that the prime minister articulates the case for membership, he will provide it; if he is perceived as being in thrall to his backbenchers, he will not.
In his vulgar use of Holocaust metaphors to portray the Iranian threat, he sounds more like the principal of a Jewish ghetto about to be annihilated by an agitated mob than the prime minister of the most powerful country in the Middle East.
Romano Prodi’s most important characteristic is not that he is Italian or left-of centre, but that he is a former prime minister of a large member state.
Other candidates whose names were canvassed included Felipe Gonzales, former prime minister of Spain, and Wim Kok, prime minister of the Netherlands.
The outgoing President, Jacques Santer, had been prime minister of Luxembourg; but the original choice of the member states five years ago, until vetoed for stupid reasons by British prime minister John Major, had been Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgium’s prime minister.
The Berlin summit confirms the general principle that the Presidency of the European Commission is now such a priority that no-one is likely to be considered as a candidate unless he or she has reached the rank of prime minister.
Israel’s response to Hamas’s victory will obviously be complicated by its own elections on March 28, and by a government headed by an interim prime minister, Ehud Olmert, owing to Sharon’s incapacitation just weeks after leaving Likud and founding a new, centrist party, Kadima (Forward).
In a November 2002 interview, the Saudi interior minister simply deemed it “impossible,” before attempting to redirect blame by accusing Jews of “exploiting” the attacks and accusing the Israeli intelligence services of having relationships with terrorist organizations.
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